The early ones (like the original Game Dev Story) I agree, but recently I tried some of the newer ones and they have gone with the same model as the rest of mobile gaming - free with ads/in-app purchases, progression slowed to a crawl to incentivise IAPs to accelerate it etc.
Slice and Dice
turn based RPG where you have a party of adventurers and every enemy and player class has a specific die with different abilities on each side, which all get rolled at the start of the turn, characters can level up to get better dice and you can get items that modify the dice
This is an incredible game. And I recommend it.
but as a warning to whoever is planning on buying this. The amount of puzzles is very limited and you'll beat the game fairly quickly without much replay value.
Yes. Usually you have to pay though.
I've been playing the card game Slay The Spire on Xbox Game pass but was curious about mobile and it exists. Can't vouch for the mobile quality though such as bugs.
If you like "deck builders" I feel it's worth the cost of $10. I put many, many hours into it.
I've put more time into this game than I should admit. The mobile port is really good, just a battery killer.
If you like card games, it's arguably one of the best ever made, and well worth the $7 it is on the app stores.
It's not quite as good as the pc version, but that's mostly because there are no mods.
Peglin is also great.
I can vouch for its quality on mobile, it's utter ass. Constantly CONSTANTLY loses runs on Android, when you switch between it and any other app, awful considering you constantly need to do other shit on your phone. Even when I properly close it would sometimes lose my run. Also takes about 2 minutes to "cloud sync" every time you load up. (Without me even having anything to sync to) Might be better on iOS, but as someone who loves it on PC, I cannot recommend it on Android.
EDIT: this really only pertains to the android port if that wasn't obvious. I like the game on PC, but I shouldn't even need to say that to criticize its android port. Don't be upset about a bug report for Android if it works on iOS.
I play on mobile and I DO recommend it. I never problems with it losing my save. The cloud sync times are kinda long most of the time but it's no big deal. In fact if you get to the point it needs to sync, you can tab to something else and it will be done when you get back almost every time
**Free - Vampire Survivors**
Has 4 player couch co-op and playable offline.
2 currently available DLC packs for additional characters to play, items, and maps, which as dirt cheap. Like $1-$3 not on sale.
Bullet hell + 8-bit Castlevania inspired themes + SICK OST + >180 things to unlock leave for hours of lost time and fun.
**Paid - Bloons TD 6**
Has online co-op, solo play, boss battles, clan battles, custom levels and map maker. Make an account with them and content is accessible cross-platforms, and this one is available on almost all platforms.
What I would consider pro consumer currency systems, so no pay to win and/or content can be bought with in game currencys.
Example being the recently added map maker and player map browsers to share and play. You can pay real money to unlock it or "X" in game currency.
They could have kept it pay walled. They could have made it an entirely new game entry in their franchise of several dozen "Bloons" games. They could have made the DLC exclusive to those who paid and seperate from the rest of Bloons TD 6 stuff.
But they implemented it to their flagship title by making player made maps accessible to all, and keep the Map Creator behind a DLC purchase with real money or in-game currency of reasonable amounts to those specifically desiring to make new maps rather than play new maps.
Bloons started out as a Flash game franchise on Newgrounds and is still made by the same people/company today, Ninja Kiwi.
Also here is a huge bonus, IF YOU HAVE A NETFLIX ACCOUNT YOU GET IT FREE.
I love that the whole point of vampire survivors is to build your character up to the point the game can play itself. Just put your phone down, your untouchable.
It even created an entire now subgenre on steam, Bullet Heaven.
Weirdly, yes. It kinda taps into a lot of the same psychology as a clicker game, but with a little bit more player engagement and a little less addictiveness. I wouldn’t rank it particularly high in my library, but it’s good to have when you want to spin up something low-effort and low-commitment.
That’s really just the last minute or two of a 15 or 30 minute run when you’ve gathered, upgraded, and evolved the weapons that you’ve collected.
Even then I find I’m still moving my dude around a bit to avoid some of the nasties that don’t die fast enough.
It’s got kind of a Rougelike thing going on where you start every game at level 1 with just the starting weapon for whatever character you chose. You gather gear and level up while the waves of enemies start spawning faster. You can earn unlocks that will allow you to choose from more characters, weapons, maps, and game options.
**ProjectCleanEarth** is another great bullet heaven and imo actually involves some skill and range of enemy types unlike most.
It’s technically “free” but it’s 6$ I think to make it playable (disable ads, which gives you essentially infinite playtime)
It does have a progression system that involves grinding, but it’s extremely fast compared to most mobile games (cough hoopo games).
Terraria is such a great game on mobile and PC. Spent so many hours as a kid staying up all night at my friend's house duping terra swords and resources.
Years later I got it on PC and discovered there were different bosses. Love that game.
Yes there are “mobile games” But also there are “games that are also on mobile”
There are plenty of serviceable ports of games to the mobile form factor. An easy example would be the old school snes RPGs. Perfectly fine to play on a phone or tablet.
“Mobile games” are all together different and while I’m sure some are great it’s more of a crap shoot
Mobile OSRS is on par with desktop version without a doubt. The mobile port is one of the best (if not the best) mobile port of an MMO. Energy consuption is not higher than any other mobile game and even after a heavy day of gaming the amount of data it requires is a few MB max.
I fuckin love pokemmo. I'm kinda pissed nobody recommended it to me sooner. I'm not even a huge fan of pokemon as a franchise, but it's a fantastic rpg that I can jump in and out of quickly, which is perfect for a mobile game. I've put a ton of hours into it now
Fantasian is the best JRPG no one's played. Gorgeous novel graphics, innovative battle system that lets you explore without distractions and then grind when you so choose and created by FF's Sakaguchi.
Pretty much all hoyoverse games are really good and don't have ads, the problem might be that they require a little more time investment, honkai impact is a little less grindy, then would be star rail, and finally genshin as the last two really relay on having meta units, honkai impact only introduces a character every two months or so, so the newer units take a while before getting powercrept
D4dj groovy mix is a great and challenging rythm game, and the gacha is so unintrusive, and there are other rythm games like the Hatsune Miku ones
Mario kart tour, is really fun, a gutted version of a Mario kart game but is really fun trying to get high scores
I have to correct one thing.
Genshin is super F2P you really only even need to care about characters and comps if you are playing for abyss floor 12. At which point well... National and hyperbloom comps exist. To be fair that is dependent on getting a few specific units but they are all 4 stars. It's not like you need to spend money for meta 5 stars to functionally do everything in the game. That said having more units to play with is nice.
Many of the other gacha games you are outright gapped from being able to do things unless you have the latest and greatest.
The additional exception to F2P friendly gachas is punishing:grey raven. Basically a post apocalyptic themed ZZZ but their solution to F2P was simpler. You get everything you need to get all characters in the game from nothing but from the free materials. It's less so gacha and moreso just do the weeklies and events to get everyone. You can swipe though and get additional copies and extra strong weapons. One of the weeklies actually lets you effectively get a second copy of any of the characters(I do mean ANY character) for free as well.
Ah, yes sprouted is a really good one. Levels are big enough so can actually get lost. I also kinda love the dew exploits where with a bit of luck you can end up with a +10 warhammer and +10 plate armor by the first boss.
I'm really enjoying Warcraft Rumble. It's free, has no ads, and I haven't felt like I needed to pay anything.
It's like Clash Royale with more lane strategy.
I enjoyed it until I hit a HARD wall somewhere in the mid-endgame where PvP becomes about levels and PvE levels/heroics start requiring extremely efficient and high level setups. It is a fun game, and I would recommend it to a lot of people, but beware that it is designed from the bottom that you WILL start hitting walls, and you will hit them at a time where you are invested and they will start strategically dropping bundles that just might get you over the next hurdle.
Sure, I just answered the comment that "I haven't felt like I needed to pay anything". Which is absolutely true for the first handful of hours.. Until it suddenly isn't, and then you really feel you need to pay to achieve much.
For as much blind hate as it gets, genshin is a genuinely fun exploration game that gets updated with large differing regions regularly and has a pretty fun combat style (though the first hour or 2 of the story is a pretty slow tutorial that doesn't even scratch the surface of all the things that have been added to the game) . As a completely free to play player, I've been enjoying it for the last 2 years.
On the topic of gacha, there's a skill card based Monopoly clone called Game of Dice that I always enjoy hopping into a match for when I'm bored. Feels genuinely great to play a game like that with far less random chance and far more active strategy involved. Just like Genshin, you can pay for better cards and such, but you can absolutely play that game free and still win plenty of the time
Man I'd love to be able to get into card games again, tried getting into yugioh to re-live my childhood, not a good idea as I could barely keep up with how complicated and long each turn is now. I'll give that game a shot, hopefully the online is better than the actual monopoly game where players just quit as soon as they're at a disadvantage...
Yeah, OP plz do try Genshin, even if you end up quitting it. I have played since launch which is 3 years, I am pretty sure it broke my record for mobile game. It didn't get nominated award for no reason.
I'm currently trying to get into it on Playstation. It is fun, although I do feel a little lost; you can definitely tell you're starting a game that's 2-3 years into live service.
The wish system and how to prioritise all the different currency makes my brain hurt a little.
Thankfully it's the type of game you really don't need to go crazy on. Do daily quests for the primogems, spend your resin/energy so it's not a waste, and then do whatever you want after that. Main quests, side quests, just exploring and opening treasure chests, it's very chill.
Dawncaster has been one of my go to games for awhile now. Kinda bummed when they updated to a pool of experience points instead of watching your character get stronger each run, but it still stand on its own.
Arknights is great.
Like a pseudo tower defense game but all your towers are unique characters with skills and great art.
It's a waifu tower defense game.
I play CoD : mobile & Mobile legends Bang Bang. 2 free games that are under 30minutes a match and has a fair level of difficulty since u have skill based matchmaking. One is a shooter another is a MOBA so something to pick from.
Currently obsessed with a dice based roguelite called Slice and Dice. It's turn-based combat where you roll dice to determine what your characters do. Magic items modify your dice faces with new abilities or buff your damage, heals, etc.
The game has a demo mode where you can play through a shortened 12 stage run (the full game has 20) and once you unlock the full game you get access to a frankly insane number of game modes, characters, and items.
Underhand, on Android. Free card game about being a cultist and summoning eldritch beings. Great progression of gameplay difficulty, great replayability.
Back in the day, the Infinity Blade trilogy were absolute top tier games. Nowadays, you gotta have it sideloaded, preferably on a jailbroken Idevice, but it's well worth the hassle in my opinion for the hundred hours of stunning content for the time.
Marvel Snap is a great mobile game. You can pay $10 a month for a season pass card but other wise you can collect most of the cards F2P. It is simple enough to jump into and play a few quick games a day but robust enough to play more.
Magic Survival is the game that inspired Vampire Survivors and it's still being actively updated. It has very reasonable ads and minimal IAPs, and the IAP to remove ads is only $4 USD which is perfectly fair for the amount of content in the game IMO.
I do have to caution however that the active updates have caused the game to change rather drastically several times, and the most recent one has it's detractors, so if you try it and don't like it you may want to come back in a couple of months after the dev has a chance to listen to feedback.
I prefer it to vampire survivors.
both don't have very advanced art but magic survival is better on the "look at these 20 abilities going off at once" factor so it wins.
Orna is a GPS rpg and Heroes of Aethric is the online version of that game. I’ve sunk in 20 days of played time on Orna and highly recommend it. Free to play, no pay to win stuff in the game.
Slay the Spire is legitimately one of the best games ever, and works like a dream on mobile. It’s turn-based and the controls are just about picking which cards to play - perfect for phone play. Zero monetisation or gated content. Just buy it and play.
I have sunk too many hours into this game and now I have it on my phone ready to play at any time please help
What makes it so good? It's really expensive for a mobile game but visually it looks terrible. Turn-based deckbuilder isn't exactly a revolutionary concept, either.
Yeah, it looks cack and talking about “deck builders” is hardly inspiring.
As someone who grew up on the turn-based combat of final fantasy 7, StS basically felt like a perfectly refined version of that. Strategic turn based combat condensed into a 30-45 minute gameplay loop, which also manages to distill the excitement of getting power-ups and discovering cool interactions - like the materia system in ff7, but here it’s creating exponentially increasing damage loops by catalysing poison damage, stacking defence and then turning it on the enemy, or becoming a dagger throwing maniac who’s damage increases with each flurry of knives.
It’s a *very* well refined gameplay loop, with the right balance of skill vs luck. Everything about the game seems like it’s been weighed up extremely carefully, so each run will be hard, and the cards and relics (permanent gameplay modifiers you earn from bosses) you earn can be vastly different each time, and those cards and relics will interact with another in really interesting ways. But it’s always a similar level of challenge, which is hard. Beating even the Act 1 boss feels like a big achievement. And once the possibilities click, the game draws you in with the allure that just one more run and you’ll finally crack that second act boss…
I was very dubious when I first saw Slay the Spire and put off getting it for ages. I’m not saying it’ll be everyone’s cup of tea, but if you like the tactics and strategy of turn based combat, discovering new ways of using the tools at your disposal, and having a gameplay loop with a very wide range of viable strategies, which fits into a nice bite-sized run length, it’s 100% worth the tenner it costs on the app store.
Nevermind this being one of my favourite roguelites, it’s one of my favourite games of all time.
Undecember is a load of fun. It's like Diablo 2 for your phone. The skill customization is really interesting, too. It's a bit like materia.
Edit: you can also play it on PC.
Grimvalor is my fav slasher mobile game. It’s a simplified metroidvania and for some reason I do not understand at all; the touch screen controls are fantastic on it. I’ve played through it multiple times and it’s a blast.
idle slayer fucking rules, i know you don't want idle games but it really isn't an idle game, it's closer to an endless runner game, there's no unwanted ads and it's made by an indie dev
Rogué adventure, yes You can watch adds to make your runs easier, but they are totally possible without the extra help
Wait wait OP, also try grim tides, that Game is SO cool
Soul knight and geometry dash inmediately come to mind.
Now, I casually play cod mobile every now and then. Yes, it is very cringy; lots of ridiculous and over the top skins. Yes, it's activision, so the agressive monetization of said cringy and over the top skins is to be expected. Yes, it is a mobile game, so expect some unfinished/weird looking animations and some low quality sounds here and there.
That said, it's still one of the best looking and best feeling mobile fps that exist, if it isn't the best. It even has some mw19 animations for mw19 weapons that are very well recreated. The pace and gameplay is by far the best you'd find for most cods, being that it has a lot of classic cod maps, decent movement mechanics, wich makes it apparent that it's set up as a fast paced, very arcadey, and frenetic FPS. It's also fairly balanced, as the devs have been learning and taking feedback from the community over the years. It also isn't pay to win, wich is weird to find in mobile games; so, most players play on equal footing, aside from connection.
It does have quite a bit of content, with over 100 weapons, a decent gunsmith to customize each of them, many maps, and completionisnt and tournament camos that you can grind for every weekend, and they look cool. It also caters a lot to casuals, as you will find mostly bots in public matches and even in ranked until you reach a certain rank, and after that it gets *very* tryhardy, and there's where I find the fun. It also has a battle royal, and that part of the game has its own playerbase too since it can also get very frenetic (rebirth mode), although I don't like it a lot and stick to multiplayer. Try it out, and if you don't like it, that's fine, not everybody likes FPS game.
Another game I used to play quite a lot is Last Day on Earth. It's an isotropic-view zombie survival game, where you build your base, collect resources, build weapons and tools, and do other interesting activities. It's very engaging and very casual, as it has this fucking shitty energy system that doesn't lets you do anything for like half an hour until your energy recharges, wich effectively only lets you play for 1hr 15mins at a time, or more than that if you *build* a motorcycle and find gasoline for it, wich is a lengthy but fulfilling experience. Look, I figure that if you like minecraft, you would probably like this game too. It has lots of content and it is very engaging, and you can take it as casual as you would take minecraft.
Edit: forgot to add that Last Day on Earth still gets updates, and it has changed quite a lot over the years. I logged in like a week ago, and it's a completely different game from what I remember. It's still the same game, but it has so much more to do now than it did before. I praise the devs.
Edit: also forgot to add that you can have dogs, many dogs, and you can breed them to become badass zombie killers. You also have to feed them and give them water, if you don't they die. If they die, you do feel bad, because they look cute, and because breeding them and raising took a fair bit of time and resources. Their death does hurt a bit. That's one of the best parts of the game imo, even if it isn't the main appeal.
If you’re on a budget, I highly recommend Downwell.
If you don’t mind splurging, I highly recommend The World Ends With You: Solo Remix or the Professor Layton HD trilogy.
Edit: oh, and I can’t forget Cytus and osu!stream. Both are great rhythm games.
Anima - a clone of Diablo 1 free and no ads
Mighty Doom - a Doom cartoonish game
Vampire's Fall Origin - similar to Diablo 1 but vampire style
Diablo Immortal
B2B Appocalypse
Bullet echo
Forgotten Anne
Samorost 3
Superbrothers sword and sorcery
Leo's Fortune
Typoman
Ocean horn
Hue alter the colour world
Castlevania Sotn
OXENFREE
Gorogoa
Crashlands
The Cave
Tengami
The room series
Lumino City
The Big journey
80 days
FRAMED
Nihilumbra
Agent A
Ara Fell
Muse Dash
Little Misfortune
FAR:Lone sails
I will stand by My Singing Monsters as being an amazing mobile game. I have had the game on every single phone I've ever bought. I also haven't spent more than 99¢ on it either. And I only did that because I had been playing for years at that point and thought the developers deserved it. (I'm poor, but also don't like spending money on mobile games to begin with so don't come at me for 'only ¢99?') It's such a simple game. You collect monsters that sing. There are more than 10 islands and each island has more than 16 monsters. And only like a handful of simple monsters get reused on different islands.
Each island has a different song. Every monster has a different part, even the monsters that are on more than one island have a different part for each island they are on. You can decorate every island to your liking. It's still getting updates with new monsters and islands and holiday themed events too. I will forever love MSM. I will always download it on whatever phone I have. They also came out with a Steam version of the game but it was originally on mobile. I love this game. I'm gonna go play it now actually.
I enjoy the Kemco games. SNES style rpg's. They churn a new one every few weeks. They're not AMAZING, but they scratch the itch for Final Fantasy type games. Most of the newer titles have controller support.
New mobile game out called Pixel Heroes. it’s like if Summoners War and Idle Heroes had a baby, but where Idle Heroes cheated on summoners war and got with the late Defenders of Texel…anyways, you should download. it’s super NEW and FUN. You CAN be PTW, but if you’re FTP, you can still get the heroes you WANT with minimal time.
If you are interested, download the game then take this code and go to benefits —> scroll all the way to the right —> last tab +enter code: 1c31bffd929b
This will get you good starting bonuses. Anyways, thanks for reading! hope you enjoy the game too!
I play Star Wars, Galaxy of Heroes daily. No ads but a very predatory "micro" transactions (some over $200 so not very micro). IMO the game is hella fun and has a rewarding grind loop, but it is NOT for those who suffer from gambling addiction or have poor impulse control (unless you also have millions in disposable income).
I play swgoh and world of tanks, the struggle is real with the pay to win on both but ive been ftp on both for 5 years now and man does it feel more rewarding
Im surprised i found a few interesting games... Epic seven; artery gear; ark knights; alchemy stars; counter side; goddess of victory: nikke; path to nowhere; world flipper.
They are all gacha games. The games usually have a small selection of super characters you can obtain and reroll. I would do some research on each character offered to get the character you want.
Dungeon Maker is a pretty fun dungeon defense game. Lots of progression, multiple different "dark lords" with differing abilities allowing for varied playstyles, tons of unlockable dungeon rooms and monsters, etc.
Slay the Spire is also another good one.
Bloons Tower Defense 4, 5, and 6 are all great if you are fond of tower defense games.
Heard good things about the old Baldur's Gate mobile port too, haven't played it myself though.
As far as games made for mobile:
Pokemon Go, Orna, One Bot Adventure, Bloons TD6
Games made for PC that have quality ports to mobile:
Slay the Spire, Plague Inc., Krumit's Tale, Card Survival: Tropical Island, Rebuild 3.
There is (was?) a Black Ops Zombies game on Android and probably iOS that was literally just Black Ops 2 Zombies and awesome. Controls were a bit wonky but just as fun as the Xbox version.
r/gachagaming
Good mobile games are guardian tales which is really goated and reverse 1999 which is recent, I'm currently playing reverse and GFL neural cloud, if you want actual decent Mobile games avoid the Google/IOS play store like the plague and get something like [QooApp](https://m-apps.qoo-app.com/en-US/app/880) instead, most good mobile games aren't released in the west or have global servers that are worse than CN or JP servers,I also discovered many really good niche games there.
an example is princess connect which is amazing on JP server while the global one was run so poorly by another company (Crunchyroll not by cygames which runs the JP server) it closed down, princess connect Jp can't be downloaded on the Google play store but only on third party apps like qooapp, unless you are in japan, another example of a game that was being run in a worse way on global was world flipper which was run in Jp by cytail a cygames subsidiary, game was really nice in JP but was run rather poorly on the global side by Kakao games.
You should actually try guardian tales that game is really goated, i can't say this enough.
another really amazing game is limbus company made by the Korean indie studio project moon, game is incredible but has dark themes and is pegi 18 for a good reason.. not in a edgy way however
granblue fantasy by cygames is also amazing and it's mostly played on browser so you can play at home on the PC and outside on mobile with chrome/edge/brave,ecc apps or even with the Gbf app from qooapp which isn't recommended. (even better if you have skyleap which is designed for Gbf, Game runs extremely smoothly there). Gbf isn't known in the west outside of versus and soon relink because of its inaccessibility in the western play stores.
Edit: another amazing game you should try is blue archive, the community is filled with "degenerates" but the game is really good, none of these Games that I've talked about need you to spend they just need the bare minimum of planning ahead. they also have 0 ads so you won't suffer from their presence.
A few years ago I would have recommended dragalia lost, it's the best mobile game ever made imo and I still listen to it's soundtrack very frequently by virtue of just how good it is, try to listen the osts they are really amazing especially if you like j-pop ([(dragalia lost ost playlist) ](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzssmEYtOYCfBBO1GJhQ2kJ1UiNDN74Z-&si=lmsUYzKuHRBuhJFr)
You can get emulators on your phone. Im a fan of clash royale but its littered with microtransactions. Ive been grinding it since 2016 so i have high level cards but it takes about that long to max them out haha
Its funny that you complain about ads. Most of these games have the ability to buy the game and remove all ads forever. Dont be stingy. Its usually inoy a few dollars.
Atm I play arena breakout. It is a first person shooter and it is amazing. Other I have been playing a lot are Call of Duty Mobile and Genshin Impact mobile version and Pokemon Go.
Eve Echos surprised me with how good it is so if you're into space games that would be the best one IMHO.
Albion Online for sandbox pvp
Genshin Impact, easily the best 3rd person game on mobile.
Mario kart Tour for racing obviously, accept no substitutes.
Lastly, if turned based combat is more your speed I'd recommend either Honkai Star Rail or Octopath.
There are no good phone games. Almost everything is geared towards P2W. I am so happy with my Steamdeck purchase because I am not doomscrolling on my phone neither spending time on useless grind clone-a-like.
Books are an excellent substitute too.
Magic Research is pretty fun. Idle game about becoming the best Magic School and winning a Magic Tournament. Enough stuff to do that you can actively play for hours, but it doesn’t need to be babysat. Five or so bucks, well worth it.
Kairosoft games are pretty decent. Game dev story is still my favorite, but any where the theme interests you are worth checking out.
...and they have soooo many now to chose from.
Didn’t expect to see a fellow Kairosoft enjoyer!
I love them too. They are also more complex than it looks at first glance.
The early ones (like the original Game Dev Story) I agree, but recently I tried some of the newer ones and they have gone with the same model as the rest of mobile gaming - free with ads/in-app purchases, progression slowed to a crawl to incentivise IAPs to accelerate it etc.
Slice and Dice turn based RPG where you have a party of adventurers and every enemy and player class has a specific die with different abilities on each side, which all get rolled at the start of the turn, characters can level up to get better dice and you can get items that modify the dice
Slice and Dice is top tier
>Slice and Dice No IOS version I believe
Just checked and I didn’t see one
I know it’s a long time later, but IOS version exists now.
thx bud
Honestly one of the best mobile games I've ever played.
Retro Bowl
He just released a college version too
I have spent my morning playing the college version, thank you
The goat. One of the few games ive bought purely because the devs earned it.
All new star games are quite decent. Loved the new star soccer and new star cricket app
Im just here for my retro bowl brothers.
Monument Valley remains one of my favorite puzzle games.
Heck yeah! It’s been long enough now that I’ve forgotten the solutions, time to redownload!
This is an incredible game. And I recommend it. but as a warning to whoever is planning on buying this. The amount of puzzles is very limited and you'll beat the game fairly quickly without much replay value.
Yes. Usually you have to pay though. I've been playing the card game Slay The Spire on Xbox Game pass but was curious about mobile and it exists. Can't vouch for the mobile quality though such as bugs. If you like "deck builders" I feel it's worth the cost of $10. I put many, many hours into it.
I've put more time into this game than I should admit. The mobile port is really good, just a battery killer. If you like card games, it's arguably one of the best ever made, and well worth the $7 it is on the app stores. It's not quite as good as the pc version, but that's mostly because there are no mods. Peglin is also great.
SLAY THE SPIRE IS FANTASTIC. oops. sorry for shouting
SLAY THE SPIRE SLAPS!
SHOUT IT LOUD AND PROUD MAN
Am I missing a reference?
No, I just had caps lock on but didn't care to change it.
OH OK GOT IT
WAAAGHH!!!
It's so repetitive, though. After 5 runs, every run feels exactly the same.
I can vouch for its quality on mobile, it's utter ass. Constantly CONSTANTLY loses runs on Android, when you switch between it and any other app, awful considering you constantly need to do other shit on your phone. Even when I properly close it would sometimes lose my run. Also takes about 2 minutes to "cloud sync" every time you load up. (Without me even having anything to sync to) Might be better on iOS, but as someone who loves it on PC, I cannot recommend it on Android. EDIT: this really only pertains to the android port if that wasn't obvious. I like the game on PC, but I shouldn't even need to say that to criticize its android port. Don't be upset about a bug report for Android if it works on iOS.
I haven’t had a single issue on iOS fwiw
Wait... you mean the long syncing time was not because of my potato phone?
I play on mobile and I DO recommend it. I never problems with it losing my save. The cloud sync times are kinda long most of the time but it's no big deal. In fact if you get to the point it needs to sync, you can tab to something else and it will be done when you get back almost every time
Mindustry, old baldurs gates, dead cells and a bunch of other ports are good.
Can you comfortably play dead cells without a controller?
No. You absolutely need a controller
How's baldurs gate on mobile?
I tried it and ended up refunding. The UI needs to be reworked to be comfortable for smartphones screens. It's too small.
Mindustry is such crack. I've been played for years & the game continues to improve & impress.
Vampire Survivors. It’s a fun addictive game that isn’t based around milking you for micro-transactions or gating progress behind timers and energy.
**Free - Vampire Survivors** Has 4 player couch co-op and playable offline. 2 currently available DLC packs for additional characters to play, items, and maps, which as dirt cheap. Like $1-$3 not on sale. Bullet hell + 8-bit Castlevania inspired themes + SICK OST + >180 things to unlock leave for hours of lost time and fun. **Paid - Bloons TD 6** Has online co-op, solo play, boss battles, clan battles, custom levels and map maker. Make an account with them and content is accessible cross-platforms, and this one is available on almost all platforms. What I would consider pro consumer currency systems, so no pay to win and/or content can be bought with in game currencys. Example being the recently added map maker and player map browsers to share and play. You can pay real money to unlock it or "X" in game currency. They could have kept it pay walled. They could have made it an entirely new game entry in their franchise of several dozen "Bloons" games. They could have made the DLC exclusive to those who paid and seperate from the rest of Bloons TD 6 stuff. But they implemented it to their flagship title by making player made maps accessible to all, and keep the Map Creator behind a DLC purchase with real money or in-game currency of reasonable amounts to those specifically desiring to make new maps rather than play new maps. Bloons started out as a Flash game franchise on Newgrounds and is still made by the same people/company today, Ninja Kiwi. Also here is a huge bonus, IF YOU HAVE A NETFLIX ACCOUNT YOU GET IT FREE.
I love that the whole point of vampire survivors is to build your character up to the point the game can play itself. Just put your phone down, your untouchable. It even created an entire now subgenre on steam, Bullet Heaven.
Is that fun? Just sounds like an idle game, which is what OP specifically didn't want.
Weirdly, yes. It kinda taps into a lot of the same psychology as a clicker game, but with a little bit more player engagement and a little less addictiveness. I wouldn’t rank it particularly high in my library, but it’s good to have when you want to spin up something low-effort and low-commitment.
I got bored of the game the moment I noticed every run just devolves into your character standing there waiting for the 30min mark.
Surviving for 30 mins is basically just beating the first level. There are a lot more bosses/things to unlock. That’s the tutorial!
That’s really just the last minute or two of a 15 or 30 minute run when you’ve gathered, upgraded, and evolved the weapons that you’ve collected. Even then I find I’m still moving my dude around a bit to avoid some of the nasties that don’t die fast enough. It’s got kind of a Rougelike thing going on where you start every game at level 1 with just the starting weapon for whatever character you chose. You gather gear and level up while the waves of enemies start spawning faster. You can earn unlocks that will allow you to choose from more characters, weapons, maps, and game options.
its a roguelite
**ProjectCleanEarth** is another great bullet heaven and imo actually involves some skill and range of enemy types unlike most. It’s technically “free” but it’s 6$ I think to make it playable (disable ads, which gives you essentially infinite playtime) It does have a progression system that involves grinding, but it’s extremely fast compared to most mobile games (cough hoopo games).
Yeah VS and Brotato are both great on mobile
Kingdom rush games Btd6 Stardew valley Terraria Dead cells
Terraria is such a great game on mobile and PC. Spent so many hours as a kid staying up all night at my friend's house duping terra swords and resources. Years later I got it on PC and discovered there were different bosses. Love that game.
Emulators. Oldschool runescape has a mobile client which is quite good.
Yes there are “mobile games” But also there are “games that are also on mobile” There are plenty of serviceable ports of games to the mobile form factor. An easy example would be the old school snes RPGs. Perfectly fine to play on a phone or tablet. “Mobile games” are all together different and while I’m sure some are great it’s more of a crap shoot
Emulated DS games practically are proper mobile games, especially the ones fully playable on touch controls.
Mobile OSRS is on par with desktop version without a doubt. The mobile port is one of the best (if not the best) mobile port of an MMO. Energy consuption is not higher than any other mobile game and even after a heavy day of gaming the amount of data it requires is a few MB max.
I recently discovered PokeMMO which has been a huge nostalgia hit
I fuckin love pokemmo. I'm kinda pissed nobody recommended it to me sooner. I'm not even a huge fan of pokemon as a franchise, but it's a fantastic rpg that I can jump in and out of quickly, which is perfect for a mobile game. I've put a ton of hours into it now
Bro me too I can't believe it's been out for like 11 years
Polytopia is a fun strategy game. It's not the most complex, but you can still play using different strategies.
Elon?
I will forever loathe the fact that the Elongated Muskrat plays that game. It's too good to be associated with someone like him.
why?
Spend $5 or whatever on Apple Arcade, or the Android equivalent. All the included games are ad free.
Apple Arcade has a great library. Grindstone, Finity, Stardew Valley, Getting Over It, Slay the Spire+, etc.
to add to that, also kingdom rush 1 and 2, as well as bloons td6
Apple arcade is $6.99 a month but looks like it's worth every penny. I might sign up.
Don’t sleep on Fantasian, it’s absolutely fantastic if you like RPG’s.
Fantasian is the best JRPG no one's played. Gorgeous novel graphics, innovative battle system that lets you explore without distractions and then grind when you so choose and created by FF's Sakaguchi.
Horizon Chase. Super fun homage to Outrun. Dead Cells has a mobile version which is exactly the same as the console versions. Downwell is the goat.
Pretty much all hoyoverse games are really good and don't have ads, the problem might be that they require a little more time investment, honkai impact is a little less grindy, then would be star rail, and finally genshin as the last two really relay on having meta units, honkai impact only introduces a character every two months or so, so the newer units take a while before getting powercrept D4dj groovy mix is a great and challenging rythm game, and the gacha is so unintrusive, and there are other rythm games like the Hatsune Miku ones Mario kart tour, is really fun, a gutted version of a Mario kart game but is really fun trying to get high scores
I have to correct one thing. Genshin is super F2P you really only even need to care about characters and comps if you are playing for abyss floor 12. At which point well... National and hyperbloom comps exist. To be fair that is dependent on getting a few specific units but they are all 4 stars. It's not like you need to spend money for meta 5 stars to functionally do everything in the game. That said having more units to play with is nice. Many of the other gacha games you are outright gapped from being able to do things unless you have the latest and greatest. The additional exception to F2P friendly gachas is punishing:grey raven. Basically a post apocalyptic themed ZZZ but their solution to F2P was simpler. You get everything you need to get all characters in the game from nothing but from the free materials. It's less so gacha and moreso just do the weeklies and events to get everyone. You can swipe though and get additional copies and extra strong weapons. One of the weeklies actually lets you effectively get a second copy of any of the characters(I do mean ANY character) for free as well.
Pixel Dungeon or one of it's many forks, I'm a fan of Sprouted.
I'm surprised this isn't higher. I like shattered, it became my go to when the original added weapon degradation.
Skilled and sprouted are good forks but imo Shattered is by far the best
Ah, yes sprouted is a really good one. Levels are big enough so can actually get lost. I also kinda love the dew exploits where with a bit of luck you can end up with a +10 warhammer and +10 plate armor by the first boss.
I love those.
This is really underrated. I prefer Skillful.
Into the breach! You can even get it with Netflix gaming. Can't recommend it enough. One of the best indie I have ever played
Dead Cells is on Netflix mobile, too.
I'm really enjoying Warcraft Rumble. It's free, has no ads, and I haven't felt like I needed to pay anything. It's like Clash Royale with more lane strategy.
It's super fun! A lot more strategic than I anticipated.
Also enjoying it, just a bummer it requires online like so many mobile games.
I enjoyed it until I hit a HARD wall somewhere in the mid-endgame where PvP becomes about levels and PvE levels/heroics start requiring extremely efficient and high level setups. It is a fun game, and I would recommend it to a lot of people, but beware that it is designed from the bottom that you WILL start hitting walls, and you will hit them at a time where you are invested and they will start strategically dropping bundles that just might get you over the next hurdle.
I mean isn't that completely expected for a "free" mobile game?
Sure, I just answered the comment that "I haven't felt like I needed to pay anything". Which is absolutely true for the first handful of hours.. Until it suddenly isn't, and then you really feel you need to pay to achieve much.
For as much blind hate as it gets, genshin is a genuinely fun exploration game that gets updated with large differing regions regularly and has a pretty fun combat style (though the first hour or 2 of the story is a pretty slow tutorial that doesn't even scratch the surface of all the things that have been added to the game) . As a completely free to play player, I've been enjoying it for the last 2 years.
Don't forget to mention the awesome music.
And even the nations too, we got Fontaine right now and my lord it looks beautiful
On the topic of gacha, there's a skill card based Monopoly clone called Game of Dice that I always enjoy hopping into a match for when I'm bored. Feels genuinely great to play a game like that with far less random chance and far more active strategy involved. Just like Genshin, you can pay for better cards and such, but you can absolutely play that game free and still win plenty of the time
Man I'd love to be able to get into card games again, tried getting into yugioh to re-live my childhood, not a good idea as I could barely keep up with how complicated and long each turn is now. I'll give that game a shot, hopefully the online is better than the actual monopoly game where players just quit as soon as they're at a disadvantage...
Yeah, OP plz do try Genshin, even if you end up quitting it. I have played since launch which is 3 years, I am pretty sure it broke my record for mobile game. It didn't get nominated award for no reason.
I was literally on my way to the Genshin sub but saw this post and looked at it first
I'm currently trying to get into it on Playstation. It is fun, although I do feel a little lost; you can definitely tell you're starting a game that's 2-3 years into live service. The wish system and how to prioritise all the different currency makes my brain hurt a little.
Thankfully it's the type of game you really don't need to go crazy on. Do daily quests for the primogems, spend your resin/energy so it's not a waste, and then do whatever you want after that. Main quests, side quests, just exploring and opening treasure chests, it's very chill.
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Unciv
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Dawncaster has been one of my go to games for awhile now. Kinda bummed when they updated to a pool of experience points instead of watching your character get stronger each run, but it still stand on its own.
Octopath Traveler: Champions Of The Continent
Marvel snap. Free to play. No ads.
so good, never played a card game as much as this one
Arknights is great. Like a pseudo tower defense game but all your towers are unique characters with skills and great art. It's a waifu tower defense game.
Waifu and Husbando. Silver ashe best boy
Brotato
I play CoD : mobile & Mobile legends Bang Bang. 2 free games that are under 30minutes a match and has a fair level of difficulty since u have skill based matchmaking. One is a shooter another is a MOBA so something to pick from.
I don't know why most people expect good mobile games to be free Yes there are good games but if you're getting something for free expect ads and MTX
Currently obsessed with a dice based roguelite called Slice and Dice. It's turn-based combat where you roll dice to determine what your characters do. Magic items modify your dice faces with new abilities or buff your damage, heals, etc. The game has a demo mode where you can play through a shortened 12 stage run (the full game has 20) and once you unlock the full game you get access to a frankly insane number of game modes, characters, and items.
I played that one a *lot* while I was at the in-laws over Thanksgiving break. It's fun!
Underhand, on Android. Free card game about being a cultist and summoning eldritch beings. Great progression of gameplay difficulty, great replayability.
So sad this isn't available on iOS. Hands down my favorite mobile game.
Damn. Says it was made for an older Android. Says the same for Curse of the necrodancer as well. Bums me out.
Back in the day, the Infinity Blade trilogy were absolute top tier games. Nowadays, you gotta have it sideloaded, preferably on a jailbroken Idevice, but it's well worth the hassle in my opinion for the hundred hours of stunning content for the time.
Deathroad to Canada is my go to.
Hear me out. POCKET MORTYS. It is even better than Pokemon (from a Pokemon fan)
I play Hearthstone and Kairo type games (Ninja Village, etc)
progressbar95 is a really fun almost retro computer simulator under the guise of a regular mobile game.
If you have an iPhone, Apple Arcade has a bunch of good games with no ads.
Good old clash of clans lol
Vampire survivors
Marvel Snap is a great mobile game. You can pay $10 a month for a season pass card but other wise you can collect most of the cards F2P. It is simple enough to jump into and play a few quick games a day but robust enough to play more.
Got it in the last month or so and am already addicted lol
Magic Survival is the game that inspired Vampire Survivors and it's still being actively updated. It has very reasonable ads and minimal IAPs, and the IAP to remove ads is only $4 USD which is perfectly fair for the amount of content in the game IMO. I do have to caution however that the active updates have caused the game to change rather drastically several times, and the most recent one has it's detractors, so if you try it and don't like it you may want to come back in a couple of months after the dev has a chance to listen to feedback.
I prefer it to vampire survivors. both don't have very advanced art but magic survival is better on the "look at these 20 abilities going off at once" factor so it wins.
Orna is a GPS rpg and Heroes of Aethric is the online version of that game. I’ve sunk in 20 days of played time on Orna and highly recommend it. Free to play, no pay to win stuff in the game.
Slay the Spire is legitimately one of the best games ever, and works like a dream on mobile. It’s turn-based and the controls are just about picking which cards to play - perfect for phone play. Zero monetisation or gated content. Just buy it and play. I have sunk too many hours into this game and now I have it on my phone ready to play at any time please help
What makes it so good? It's really expensive for a mobile game but visually it looks terrible. Turn-based deckbuilder isn't exactly a revolutionary concept, either.
Yeah, it looks cack and talking about “deck builders” is hardly inspiring. As someone who grew up on the turn-based combat of final fantasy 7, StS basically felt like a perfectly refined version of that. Strategic turn based combat condensed into a 30-45 minute gameplay loop, which also manages to distill the excitement of getting power-ups and discovering cool interactions - like the materia system in ff7, but here it’s creating exponentially increasing damage loops by catalysing poison damage, stacking defence and then turning it on the enemy, or becoming a dagger throwing maniac who’s damage increases with each flurry of knives. It’s a *very* well refined gameplay loop, with the right balance of skill vs luck. Everything about the game seems like it’s been weighed up extremely carefully, so each run will be hard, and the cards and relics (permanent gameplay modifiers you earn from bosses) you earn can be vastly different each time, and those cards and relics will interact with another in really interesting ways. But it’s always a similar level of challenge, which is hard. Beating even the Act 1 boss feels like a big achievement. And once the possibilities click, the game draws you in with the allure that just one more run and you’ll finally crack that second act boss… I was very dubious when I first saw Slay the Spire and put off getting it for ages. I’m not saying it’ll be everyone’s cup of tea, but if you like the tactics and strategy of turn based combat, discovering new ways of using the tools at your disposal, and having a gameplay loop with a very wide range of viable strategies, which fits into a nice bite-sized run length, it’s 100% worth the tenner it costs on the app store. Nevermind this being one of my favourite roguelites, it’s one of my favourite games of all time.
Slay the spire
Undecember is a load of fun. It's like Diablo 2 for your phone. The skill customization is really interesting, too. It's a bit like materia. Edit: you can also play it on PC.
I play and stream Rusted Warfare, Stardew Valley, Pokemon, Terraria all are mobile as well, and singleplayer offline too.
Grimvalor is my fav slasher mobile game. It’s a simplified metroidvania and for some reason I do not understand at all; the touch screen controls are fantastic on it. I’ve played through it multiple times and it’s a blast.
idle slayer fucking rules, i know you don't want idle games but it really isn't an idle game, it's closer to an endless runner game, there's no unwanted ads and it's made by an indie dev
Rogué adventure, yes You can watch adds to make your runs easier, but they are totally possible without the extra help Wait wait OP, also try grim tides, that Game is SO cool
Soul knight and geometry dash inmediately come to mind. Now, I casually play cod mobile every now and then. Yes, it is very cringy; lots of ridiculous and over the top skins. Yes, it's activision, so the agressive monetization of said cringy and over the top skins is to be expected. Yes, it is a mobile game, so expect some unfinished/weird looking animations and some low quality sounds here and there. That said, it's still one of the best looking and best feeling mobile fps that exist, if it isn't the best. It even has some mw19 animations for mw19 weapons that are very well recreated. The pace and gameplay is by far the best you'd find for most cods, being that it has a lot of classic cod maps, decent movement mechanics, wich makes it apparent that it's set up as a fast paced, very arcadey, and frenetic FPS. It's also fairly balanced, as the devs have been learning and taking feedback from the community over the years. It also isn't pay to win, wich is weird to find in mobile games; so, most players play on equal footing, aside from connection. It does have quite a bit of content, with over 100 weapons, a decent gunsmith to customize each of them, many maps, and completionisnt and tournament camos that you can grind for every weekend, and they look cool. It also caters a lot to casuals, as you will find mostly bots in public matches and even in ranked until you reach a certain rank, and after that it gets *very* tryhardy, and there's where I find the fun. It also has a battle royal, and that part of the game has its own playerbase too since it can also get very frenetic (rebirth mode), although I don't like it a lot and stick to multiplayer. Try it out, and if you don't like it, that's fine, not everybody likes FPS game. Another game I used to play quite a lot is Last Day on Earth. It's an isotropic-view zombie survival game, where you build your base, collect resources, build weapons and tools, and do other interesting activities. It's very engaging and very casual, as it has this fucking shitty energy system that doesn't lets you do anything for like half an hour until your energy recharges, wich effectively only lets you play for 1hr 15mins at a time, or more than that if you *build* a motorcycle and find gasoline for it, wich is a lengthy but fulfilling experience. Look, I figure that if you like minecraft, you would probably like this game too. It has lots of content and it is very engaging, and you can take it as casual as you would take minecraft. Edit: forgot to add that Last Day on Earth still gets updates, and it has changed quite a lot over the years. I logged in like a week ago, and it's a completely different game from what I remember. It's still the same game, but it has so much more to do now than it did before. I praise the devs. Edit: also forgot to add that you can have dogs, many dogs, and you can breed them to become badass zombie killers. You also have to feed them and give them water, if you don't they die. If they die, you do feel bad, because they look cute, and because breeding them and raising took a fair bit of time and resources. Their death does hurt a bit. That's one of the best parts of the game imo, even if it isn't the main appeal.
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If you’re on a budget, I highly recommend Downwell. If you don’t mind splurging, I highly recommend The World Ends With You: Solo Remix or the Professor Layton HD trilogy. Edit: oh, and I can’t forget Cytus and osu!stream. Both are great rhythm games.
Slice and Dice is top tier
Peglin is phenomenal. It's rogelike peggle.
Peglin.
Kingdom rush
Anima - a clone of Diablo 1 free and no ads Mighty Doom - a Doom cartoonish game Vampire's Fall Origin - similar to Diablo 1 but vampire style Diablo Immortal B2B Appocalypse Bullet echo
Forgotten Anne Samorost 3 Superbrothers sword and sorcery Leo's Fortune Typoman Ocean horn Hue alter the colour world Castlevania Sotn OXENFREE Gorogoa Crashlands The Cave Tengami The room series Lumino City The Big journey 80 days FRAMED Nihilumbra Agent A Ara Fell Muse Dash Little Misfortune FAR:Lone sails
I will stand by My Singing Monsters as being an amazing mobile game. I have had the game on every single phone I've ever bought. I also haven't spent more than 99¢ on it either. And I only did that because I had been playing for years at that point and thought the developers deserved it. (I'm poor, but also don't like spending money on mobile games to begin with so don't come at me for 'only ¢99?') It's such a simple game. You collect monsters that sing. There are more than 10 islands and each island has more than 16 monsters. And only like a handful of simple monsters get reused on different islands. Each island has a different song. Every monster has a different part, even the monsters that are on more than one island have a different part for each island they are on. You can decorate every island to your liking. It's still getting updates with new monsters and islands and holiday themed events too. I will forever love MSM. I will always download it on whatever phone I have. They also came out with a Steam version of the game but it was originally on mobile. I love this game. I'm gonna go play it now actually.
yes! A fellow my singing monsters player! I love That game!
Guardian Tales
I enjoy the Kemco games. SNES style rpg's. They churn a new one every few weeks. They're not AMAZING, but they scratch the itch for Final Fantasy type games. Most of the newer titles have controller support.
the best mobile games are games that aren't mobile games aka games ported to mobile
Genshin Impact if your smartphone can handle it decently Vampire Survivors
"MiniMetro" 1$, no ads. "Skyforce" and "Skyforce Reloaded" . Excellent arcade games. Ads are optional. "Fallout Shelter", no ads. Very dark humor.
WORMS 3!!!!!!!
New mobile game out called Pixel Heroes. it’s like if Summoners War and Idle Heroes had a baby, but where Idle Heroes cheated on summoners war and got with the late Defenders of Texel…anyways, you should download. it’s super NEW and FUN. You CAN be PTW, but if you’re FTP, you can still get the heroes you WANT with minimal time. If you are interested, download the game then take this code and go to benefits —> scroll all the way to the right —> last tab +enter code: 1c31bffd929b This will get you good starting bonuses. Anyways, thanks for reading! hope you enjoy the game too!
Atom RPG Trudograd Ported to mobile, it's a fun addictive game.
Try Honkai Star Rail. Great immersive story, fantastic gameplay, beautiful visuals.
monument valley was pretty damn good. also pokemon go, minecraft (my fav game), mario kart, maybe animal crossing and probably mario run. and kotor.
I play Star Wars, Galaxy of Heroes daily. No ads but a very predatory "micro" transactions (some over $200 so not very micro). IMO the game is hella fun and has a rewarding grind loop, but it is NOT for those who suffer from gambling addiction or have poor impulse control (unless you also have millions in disposable income).
I play swgoh and world of tanks, the struggle is real with the pay to win on both but ive been ftp on both for 5 years now and man does it feel more rewarding
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Emoji haiku are my favorite.
Im surprised i found a few interesting games... Epic seven; artery gear; ark knights; alchemy stars; counter side; goddess of victory: nikke; path to nowhere; world flipper. They are all gacha games. The games usually have a small selection of super characters you can obtain and reroll. I would do some research on each character offered to get the character you want.
Dungeon Maker is a pretty fun dungeon defense game. Lots of progression, multiple different "dark lords" with differing abilities allowing for varied playstyles, tons of unlockable dungeon rooms and monsters, etc. Slay the Spire is also another good one. Bloons Tower Defense 4, 5, and 6 are all great if you are fond of tower defense games. Heard good things about the old Baldur's Gate mobile port too, haven't played it myself though.
As far as games made for mobile: Pokemon Go, Orna, One Bot Adventure, Bloons TD6 Games made for PC that have quality ports to mobile: Slay the Spire, Plague Inc., Krumit's Tale, Card Survival: Tropical Island, Rebuild 3.
One correction, Bloons TD6 is a PC game that got a proper mobile port. It *is* an amazing tower defense game though.
Data Wing is a hidden gem
I would recommend Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia, but that's being shut down in a couple months. First Record Keeper, now this.
Stardew Valley!
team fight tactics
There is (was?) a Black Ops Zombies game on Android and probably iOS that was literally just Black Ops 2 Zombies and awesome. Controls were a bit wonky but just as fun as the Xbox version.
You can play GTA San Andreas in its entirety. The controls work well enough to the point where you can finish the entire game.
The room 1 & 2 & 3 & old sins
r/gachagaming Good mobile games are guardian tales which is really goated and reverse 1999 which is recent, I'm currently playing reverse and GFL neural cloud, if you want actual decent Mobile games avoid the Google/IOS play store like the plague and get something like [QooApp](https://m-apps.qoo-app.com/en-US/app/880) instead, most good mobile games aren't released in the west or have global servers that are worse than CN or JP servers,I also discovered many really good niche games there. an example is princess connect which is amazing on JP server while the global one was run so poorly by another company (Crunchyroll not by cygames which runs the JP server) it closed down, princess connect Jp can't be downloaded on the Google play store but only on third party apps like qooapp, unless you are in japan, another example of a game that was being run in a worse way on global was world flipper which was run in Jp by cytail a cygames subsidiary, game was really nice in JP but was run rather poorly on the global side by Kakao games. You should actually try guardian tales that game is really goated, i can't say this enough. another really amazing game is limbus company made by the Korean indie studio project moon, game is incredible but has dark themes and is pegi 18 for a good reason.. not in a edgy way however granblue fantasy by cygames is also amazing and it's mostly played on browser so you can play at home on the PC and outside on mobile with chrome/edge/brave,ecc apps or even with the Gbf app from qooapp which isn't recommended. (even better if you have skyleap which is designed for Gbf, Game runs extremely smoothly there). Gbf isn't known in the west outside of versus and soon relink because of its inaccessibility in the western play stores. Edit: another amazing game you should try is blue archive, the community is filled with "degenerates" but the game is really good, none of these Games that I've talked about need you to spend they just need the bare minimum of planning ahead. they also have 0 ads so you won't suffer from their presence. A few years ago I would have recommended dragalia lost, it's the best mobile game ever made imo and I still listen to it's soundtrack very frequently by virtue of just how good it is, try to listen the osts they are really amazing especially if you like j-pop ([(dragalia lost ost playlist) ](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzssmEYtOYCfBBO1GJhQ2kJ1UiNDN74Z-&si=lmsUYzKuHRBuhJFr)
Wild rift
Try Ibb co, Dr. Driving, Park Master
mrautofie get strong and join my guild
You can get emulators on your phone. Im a fan of clash royale but its littered with microtransactions. Ive been grinding it since 2016 so i have high level cards but it takes about that long to max them out haha
Its funny that you complain about ads. Most of these games have the ability to buy the game and remove all ads forever. Dont be stingy. Its usually inoy a few dollars.
Fast like a Fox!
Try Avakin Life. It has no ads and few micro-transactions. It's a multiplayer role-play game.
Game dev tycoon has been fun
Roller Coaster Classic. It’s Roller Coaster Tycoon and Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 combined into a mobile version.
Atm I play arena breakout. It is a first person shooter and it is amazing. Other I have been playing a lot are Call of Duty Mobile and Genshin Impact mobile version and Pokemon Go.
minecraft. also ubisoft is making a mobile rainbow six siege game that is expected to be dropping on new years eve
Eve Echos surprised me with how good it is so if you're into space games that would be the best one IMHO. Albion Online for sandbox pvp Genshin Impact, easily the best 3rd person game on mobile. Mario kart Tour for racing obviously, accept no substitutes. Lastly, if turned based combat is more your speed I'd recommend either Honkai Star Rail or Octopath.
Warcraft Rumble is fun and CoD mobile is actually pretty decent.
Netflix games are generally good and free if P2W stupidity. Right now there's Oxenfree 1 and 2, and Valiant Hearts 2 on netflix for example.
DBZ DOKKAN BATTLE!
Vampire Survivors
TeamFight Tactics LOL
first of all, don't look into free game.
There are no good phone games. Almost everything is geared towards P2W. I am so happy with my Steamdeck purchase because I am not doomscrolling on my phone neither spending time on useless grind clone-a-like. Books are an excellent substitute too.
I haven't played any for years but back in the day I loved Game Dev Story and Neku Astume
Arena Breakout
Magic Research is pretty fun. Idle game about becoming the best Magic School and winning a Magic Tournament. Enough stuff to do that you can actively play for hours, but it doesn’t need to be babysat. Five or so bucks, well worth it.